
Overview
ZDM – Mathematics Education is a forum for critical analysis, surveying, and building upon current research and theoretical-based perspectives in mathematics education.
- Publishes invitation-only papers in seven annual themed issues.
- One of the oldest mathematics education research journals in publication.
- Targets readers globally in mathematics education research.
- Reported high author satisfaction with a likelihood to publish again in the journal.
- Editor-in-Chief
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- Stanislaw Schukajlow
- Associate Editors
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- Gabriele Kaiser,
- Roza Leikin
Societies and partnerships
Journal metrics
- Journal Impact Factor
- 2.0 (2023)
- 5-year Journal Impact Factor
- 2.7 (2023)
- Submission to first decision (median)
- 3 days
- Downloads
- 844k (2024)

Latest issue
International Perspectives on Mathematical Modelling
Latest articles
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Mathematics textbooks: transitions from manuscript to print
- Gert Schubring
Original Paper Open access 13 June 2025 -
The quality of digital curriculum resources for mathematics in German educational policy
- Sebastian Rezat
Original Paper Open access 11 June 2025 -
Systematics review of the interdisciplinary exchange among mathematics education and neuroscience
- Roza Leikin
- Hui-Yu Hsu
- Ilana Waisman
Original Paper Open access 09 June 2025 -
The role of textbooks in the implementation of curriculum development: a comparative study through the lens of Chinese and Indonesian teachers’ views
- Lianghuo Fan
- Dyana Wijayanti
- Mailizar Mailizar
Original Paper 04 June 2025
Journal updates
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Webinar on Special Issue 2/3 2025
International Perspectives on Mathematical Modelling
Edited by Stanislaw Schukajlow, Janina Krawitz, Xinrong Yang, Vince Geiger
Date: 26th June 2025, 10:00–11:30 (UTC), 12:00–13:30 (CEST)
Zoom link: https://uni-ms.zoom-x.de/j/68066300058?pwd=VrThbt4eQMhYQLqFXteFR623zbMJ5A.1
Meeting-ID:680 6630 0058
Security code:819969
Moderator: Stanislaw Schukajlow (Editor-in-Chief of ZDM – Mathematics Education)
No registration required, please feel free to distribute this invitation
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Special Issue Call for Papers - Computational Thinking for Mathematics Education: Emerging Perspectives, Design, and Tools
In this Special Issue we ask the question: how can we make use of research into the characteristics and educational value of CT to serve research in mathematics education and to consider emerging contexts inviting new kinds of mathematizations? Click for more...
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Current issues in 2025 and coming issues
Issues in 2025
57(1) Developing students’ reasoning with data and data-ing
Eds.: Jill Fielding, Katie Makar, Dani Ben-Zvi
57(2/3) International perspectives on mathematical modelling
Eds.: Stanislaw Schukajlow, Janina Krawitz, Xinrong Yang, Vince Geiger
57(4) Reviews on important themes in mathematics education
Eds.: Gabriele Kaiser, Stanislaw Schukajlow
57(5) Mathematics textbooks for curriculum development and instructional reform
Eds.: Lianghuo Fan, Chunxia Qi, Wee Tiong Seah, Qimeng Liu
57(6) Expertise and competence as complementary paradigmatic approaches – in memoriam Sigrid Blömeke
Eds.: Gabriele Kaiser, Johannes König
57(7) Perspectives on mathematics education from Latin America
Eds.: Marcelo Borba, Jhony Alexander Villa-Ochoa, Mario Sánchez Aguilar
Issues in 2026
58(1/2) Innovative approaches to research in mathematics teachers noticing
Eds.: Miriam Sherin, Elizabeth van Es, Thorsten Scheiner, Gabriele Kaiser
58(3) Integration of cognitive neuroscience in research on mathematical thinking, learning and problem-solving
Eds.: Roza Leikin, Roland Grabner, Stephan Vogel
58(4) Motivation in mathematics education: Relevance of situated perspectives for learning and achievement
Eds.: Stanislaw Schukajlow, Jelena Radisic, Stefanie Rach, Jacquelynne Eccles
58(5) Artificial intelligence in mathematics education research
Eds.: Maike Schindler, Achim Lilienthal, Mustafa Cevikbas
58(6) Enhancing data literacy for citizenship: Innovative approaches in data science and statistics education
Eds.: Rolf Biehler, Iddo Gal, Maxine Pfannkuch, Travis Weiland
58(7) Out-of-field teaching in mathematics
Eds.: Anna du Plessis, Merrilyn Goos
Issues in 2027
59(1) Feedback in assessment
Eds.: Shai Olsher, Eirini Geraniou, Francesca Morselli, Kaye Stacey
59(2) Mathematics teachers’ collaboration in virtual and hybrid environments: An international perspective
Eds.: Rongjin Huang, Despina Potari, Hilda Borko, Carmel Mesiti, Xingfeng Huang
59(3) Computational thinking for mathematics education: Emerging perspectives, design, and tools
Eds.: Oi-Lam Ng, Chronis Kynigos, Alison Clark-Wilson -
ZDM webinar recordings
Webinars on special issues of ZDM – Mathematics Education: recordings can be found here.
- COVID 19 pandemic – its mathematical background and its social and educational consequences (Eds.: Johann Engelbrecht, Marcelo Borba and Gabriele Kaiser)
- Emotions and Motivation in Mathematics Education and Educational Psychology (Eds.: Stanislaw Schukajlow, Katrin Rakoczy and Reinhard Pekrun)
- Conceptualizing teachers’ interactions with resources in crossing languages and cultures (Eds. Luc Trouche, Jill Adler and Janine Remillard)
- Exploring and Strengthening University Mathematics Courses for Secondary Teacher Preparation (Eds.: Orly Buchbinder, Nicholas H. Wasserman, Nils Buchholtz)
- Reconceptualizing the relationship between language, mathematics, and the learner in mathematics education research (Eds.: Higinio Dominguez, Miwa Aoki Takeuchi and Marta Civil)
- Mathematics and Interdisciplinary STEM education
(Eds.: Merrilyn Goos, Susana Carreira, Immaculate Kizito Namukasa) - Reviews on important themes in mathematics education - Session 1
(Eds.: Gabriele Kaiser, Stanislaw Schukajlow) - Reviews on important themes in mathematics education - Session 2
(Eds.: Gabriele Kaiser, Stanislaw Schukajlow) - Webinar on language and marginalisation
Reconceptualizing the relationship between language, mathematics, and the learner in mathematics education research(Eds.: Higinio Dominguez, Miwa Aoki Takeuchi & Marta Civil)
Mathematics teaching and teacher education against marginalisation(Eds.: Yasmine Abtahi & Núria Planas)
Journal information
- Electronic ISSN
- 1863-9704
- Print ISSN
- 1863-9690
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- CNKI
- CNPIEC
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- Google Scholar
- Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
- Naver
- Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series
- OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
- Portico
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